profiler
nounEtymology From profile + -er.
1
A mechanical device that cuts complex, irregular shapes by tracing a pattern.
2
A person who creates a profile for something or someone, especially a psychological profile for an unknown criminal.
3
A device that analyzes something and builds up a profile.
- a sediment profiler
4
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A software program that measures the performance of different portions of another program in order to locate bottlenecks.
- […] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.2006, Dr. Dobb's Journal:
- Derived terms
- microprofiler, racial profiler
- Related terms
- profilist